Indie Builder Notes
Notes for developers shipping their own products: finding and scoping an idea, pricing, landing pages, choosing a stack, keeping a repo presentable, learning from community questions and turning one post into many.
Systematic Ideation: How to Engineer Profitable Micro-SaaS Ideas
Treat micro-SaaS ideas as a pipeline: mine real complaints, store them with evidence, cut weak ones with three filters, score the rest, then run a smoke test.
02 · Blog10 Micro-SaaS Ideas Using AI Automation
Ten small SaaS ideas built on AI APIs and n8n workflows, each with the problem, the AI part, the automation part and a revenue model, plus a build plan and the pitfalls.
03 · BlogThe De-Scoping Algorithm: How to Define an MVP That Actually Ships
Cut a side project down to something you can ship: pick one user, one pain and one KPI, then run every feature through a three-question de-scoping check.
04 · BlogPricing 101 for Solo Founders: Stop Undervaluing Your Code
Price a micro-SaaS by the value it delivers, not your server bill: pick a value metric, build three tiers, use anchoring honestly, try a reverse trial and model plans as entitlements.
05 · BlogThe Developer’s Guide to Landing Page Teardowns: Debugging Your Conversion Rate
A step-by-step teardown for developers: rewrite the hero so it says what the tool does, explain how it works in three steps, use honest proof and test the page before launch.
06 · BlogThe Pragmatic Automation Stack: When to Pay vs. When to Self-Host
A three-question test for deciding when to pay for a SaaS tool and when to self-host, applied to n8n vs Zapier, Airtable vs Supabase, Vercel vs Coolify and hosted vs local models.
07 · BlogHow I Build Applications Faster with Supabase
How Supabase's Postgres APIs, auth, realtime and storage fit together, plus migrations, Row Level Security, Edge Functions, plan limits and the pitfalls to avoid.
08 · BlogYour Code is Good, But Your Repo Looks Abandoned: A Guide to GitHub Hygiene
A checklist for making a GitHub repo look maintained: a clear README, a demo, topics, issue forms, a clean .gitignore, no leaked secrets, readable commits and a license.
09 · BlogThe Feedback Loop: Turning Community Questions into Engineering Assets
A practical system for developers who build in public: collect the questions people ask, sort them, answer each once in a permanent place, and let the patterns steer what you build.
10 · BlogThe Infinite Content Engine: How to Turn 1 Technical Blog Post into 10 Assets
A repurposing map for developers: turn one technical blog post into ten assets, from an X thread and a LinkedIn document post to a newsletter, a video and Q&A answers.
11 · BlogSystematizing Creativity: Building an Automated Content Repurposing Pipeline
Build a pipeline that turns a rough idea in Notion into LinkedIn and X drafts: a status change triggers the workflow, an LLM returns schema-checked JSON, and you review.
12 · BlogRefactoring My Reality: The Engineer's Guide to Daily Systems
Plan your day in 2-hour deep work loops, keep a plain Markdown log of what you planned and what shipped, and review it weekly to fix the parts of your routine that break.